Since the mobile app's name "Play Wild" has been changed to "Animal Jam", should we also change the phrase "The mobile app Play Wild has a Name similar item name item." in the trivia section to "The mobile app Animal Jam has a Name similar item name item."
It would be easy to find all of those items, as we would just have to do Category: Unconfirmed Counterpart, the tricky part would be changing all of the phrases.
this should be remain play wild lol
most ppl r used to play wild so it would be confusing if it changed -.-
Well, if we didn't change it, we wouldn't be living up to the wiki's name for being a factual website about AJ Classic.
Well this is the "Fandom" website, and most people in the "fandom" or community do still call the games Animal Jam, and PlayWild.
should we just rename it to "the mobile Animal Jam game" or something? we literally have a page on the wiki regarding play wild so we could simply indicate that it was previously named play wild.
also, i'm not entirely sure if the "aj/pw counterpart" info is even at all useful so if it isn't then we should just remove it altogether.
The original Play Wild wiki has already changed their name to "Animal Jam Wiki", so I think we should at least change it to reduce confusion.
Honestly WildWorks is giving everyone such a big headache with the name change. Personally, I would just like to stick to using "The mobile app Animal Jam - Play Wild has a similar item name item." Later on, we can see if people transition to calling AJPW by simply "Animal Jam" or if people still call it "Play Wild."
Yumms567 wrote: The original Play Wild wiki has already changed their name to "Animal Jam Wiki", so I think we should at least change it to reduce confusion.
From what I see, the Play Wild Wiki is still called the Play Wild Wiki - it's just that the banner and wiki text header display the words "Animal Jam Wiki." If we truly wanted to reduce confusion and simultaneously refer to the games by their canonical names, we would have to get the Play Wild Wiki to completely change their name to "Animal Jam Wiki" while our wiki would have to change the name to "Animal Jam Classic Wiki." Our wiki as well as the Play Wild Wiki would also need to change all mentions of "Animal Jam" to "Animal Jam Classic" in addition to changing all mentions of "Play Wild" to "Animal Jam." All this work doesn't really seem to be worth it considering that many people have still not fully adjusted to the name transition yet.
I also notice when AJHQ mentions "Animal Jam," they don't always use it to refer to just the mobile app. In the birthday celebration video, AJHQ referred to the desktop game as "Animal Jam" as well. It seems to be more of like a franchise where AJHQ is acting as though PC Animal Jam and mobile Animal Jam are basically two versions of the same game. Yet at the same time, AJHQ wants us players to refer to only the mobile app as "Animal Jam," so I find that AJHQ themselves aren't very consistent or clear with the names either.
2023zhanl38 wrote: also, i'm not entirely sure if the "aj/pw counterpart" info is even at all useful so if it isn't then we should just remove it altogether.
I feel like most trivia information isn't really meant to be particularly useful.
I do fully agree that the name change is extremely exasperating and confusing. A name that many people have already engraved in their mind had been changed suddenly, so sudden that AJHQ accidentally still calls it by its former name. If Mooziq was still active on the wiki, it might have been possible to change all the name stuff using Qizoom.
